Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

Date:April 6 or March 28,1483 - April 6, 1520

Location:Italy

Facts:

• He is an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

• His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the philosophical ideal of human importance.

• Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

• Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop, and despite his death at 37, a large body of his work remains.

• The best known work is The School of Athens.

• After his early years in Rome much of his work was self-designed.

• He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his printmaking.

Summary

Raphael was impotant because his work had more serene and harmonious qualities that again regarded as the highest models.